Luna and The Doctor see themselves back in the store finally be able to take of those helmets. “Come back.” Mack tells both still feeling the aftereffects of what happened in that memory. “You never told us we would be feeling the shockwaves in there.” The Doctor tells him, trying to catch his breath from the aftereffects. “I remember my first time going in.” Mack tells him handing both a small bottle of water.

“Thanks.” The takes the water from him and take a quick drink before continuing. “What I don’t understand is that figure we’ve seen inside.” He finishes his train of thought; making Mack wondering the hell he is talking about. “Figure, what figure?” He asks both of them.

Luna finally gets a whole of herself to talk. “You see something happen inside that memory.” She tells him what has happened inside the memory.

“So, they are true.” He said out loud. “What is?” Luna asks him. “I thought they were false, but the rumors are true.” He tells them.

“I never have seen this figure in person, but I hear folks seeing this figure in their dreams and in James's memories. But both of you seen this figure in person inside that memory.” He tells them his side of the story.

“So, you mean is that this figure is like a god; only showing itself when it wants too?” The Doctor asks him. “Technically, I’m afraid so.” Mack answers his question.

“Well, James isn’t going to come out of this on his own.” Mack said out loud clapping his hands together before grabbing the memory out of the slot, shutting down the machine. Luna and The Doctor putting the helmets back still feeling a little off from just moments ago.

The three of them made their way back to the rig, before seeing a set of red and blue lights coming towards them. Just in a few seconds a blue and white Crown Victoria pulls into the parking lot where they are, making Luna a little nervous and The Doctor ready for what about to happen. “Relax.” Mack tells them seeing the driver get out of the car on the driver side door seeing a police officer taking them, with his lights still going.

“Mack; What the hell are you doing here?” The officer asks him like his knows him. “Officer Menendez, nice to you too.” Mack tells him in a cocky attitude, confusing Luna. “Mack, you know why I’m here. Don’t you?” The officer asks him. “Is it about the shipment I have in the trailer.” He answers the officer making him a little angry before hearing his radio going off stopping him in his tracks. “Mack, I never liked your attitude. But I’ll let you off the hook this time next time, you may not be so lucky.” The officer tells him before getting back towards his car and takes off.

“Ok, what just happen?” The Doctor asks out loud being confused has ever been. “That not important right now. We need to get you two to the core as we can.” Mack answers him opening the driver side door on his rig. Before hearing something in the distance like an explosion. Then seeing a fireball to where they came in at. Luna remembers seeing back there, but wasn’t too sure, until now.

The three of them seeing the fire in front of them hearing the sound of gunfire now for only a few seconds. Then something jumps from the fire coming towards them. Landing on one of the buildings coming towards near them before and landing only a few yards away.

A pond seeing what is in front of them shocks the three of them. The figure looks like the General that they had seen in that memory, but looking more like a rotten corpse with the left side of his face blasted off from what looks like a gun shot making both of his eyes glowing red and veins coming from his left arm making it leak some kind black slime.

“Nice to see both of you after all these years.” The creature tells the three of them. “Which one of us, were you referring too?” Mack asks the creature standing. “Not you, you old man.” It answers out loud in its voice sound like a malfunctioning speaker. Scaring the three of them before seeing that the creature is doing something making it mouth glow red before spitting a red glowing slime ball landing on the truck tank

“GET DOWN!” Mack shouts before seeing truck goes up in flames making Luna and the Doctor duck to the ground, as well seeing Mack get set on fire as well on his right arm, making him quickly put out the fire making his shirt badly damage, showing that his skin his just a little red. But once he sees that his truck has gone into a fireball in front of him. It felt like someone shot him in his heart with a slug round from a shotgun.

Luna looks up seeing that creature that destroyed Mack’s truck is coming closer towards them showing what kind of force that they are dealing with. Just then a set of blue and red lights come at them and see that it the officer that they just met coming towards them as fast he could, before hitting the General and crashing to a nearby wall making the car his was driving to go up in flames as well.

The Doctor seeing all of this going gets back up helping Luna back on her feet. Seeing everything that just happens. “Mack, you’re alright?” He asks him, seeing the damaged shirt and the red skin. “I’ll be alright. But this was my favorite shirt; That bastard.” He said out loud answering his question after seeing the state of his shirt.

Then hearing the remains of the police car that is still on fire slowly moving getting their attention. “Impossible?” Mack said out loud seeing what going on in front of his eyes. Then in a split second the car shot up from the ground, flipping 180^o handing on its top seeing the creature coming out of the wreckage looking like didn’t leave a mark on him, creaking his neck before coming towards the three of us.

“We need to get out of here.” Luna said out loud. “She’s right, we need to get to the core before he gets there.” Quickly repose the Doctor getting Mack on his feet.

“Where do you think you're going?” The creature asks them before being hit with a blast of a shotgun, making him turn to see who just fire at him. Seeing that it was an officer of the law with his shotgun. “Come on, I’m over here!” He shouts at him firing off another shot, hitting him again pissing him off. The creature turns his attention toward the officer.

Luna sees this helping the Doctor with Mack to get to safety.

“Come on you, baster.” The officer said out loud firing off two shots off before running out of ammo in his shotgun. Quickly throwing to the side and taking out his sidearm, which is a 9mm pistol. Firing everything he got screaming at it drawing its attention from those three that was heading towards.

The creature coming closer and closer taking all the fire the officer putting into him. Until the officer ran out of ammo grabbing the officer with his glowing hand lifting him off the ground. The officer having a tuff time breathing. “You're pissing me off.” The creature tells him before pulling a revolver with his other hand. Dropping the officer hitting the ground coughing trying to catch his breath before seeing the gun aim towards his head and close his eyes.

BANG!!!!

The creature that looks like a rotten corpse of the General, holsters his gun turn to see that those three have escaped. “We’ll meet again. Sooner than you think.” He said out loud seeing the flaming wreck of the rig in front of him.

Elsewhere.

Luna and The Doctor carrying Mack threw the streets of the city getting a few blocks away before hearing a loud gunshot behind them; Then nothing.

“It sounds like the young officer didn’t make it.” Mack said out loud starting to feel the pain coming from his arm that been set on fire. The Doctor getting a closer look at it seeing that there is some more severe than it looks just a few minutes ago. “That doesn’t look good.” He tells himself; Mack hears that without the Doctor knows.

“How bad?” He asks him, shocking the Doctor from what he said earlier. “Sorry, I was thinking out loud.” The Doctor tells Mack trying to calm his nerves while dealing with the pain. “How bad?” Mack asks him again feeling the pain shoot up his arm. “Not good, it looks like second-degree burns.” The Doctor answers his question. “Damn. It could be worst; I could have been dead.” Mack said out loud.

“Can you make it?” Luna asks him. “Yes, I can; I just got a burn-up arm.” Mack answers her question getting up from the ground trying not to let his burn up arm from being touch.

“Come on then, we need to get to the core. Before that thing gets there first.” Mack said out loud.

Meanwhile outside.

Destiny still holding her father's hand feeling the tension going on inside. While the lightning bolt still trying to find him with the Doctor and Luna helping it along.

While Celestia wondering still to think a way out of this tragedy. Ponies and guards outside trying to keep everyone calm, while the sky above them still dark but feeling like it should be late by now.

Back inside.

Mack, Luna, and the Doctor made there way deeper into the long-term memory, seeing a train line above them. Wondering where it leads. “I’m thinking that this line leads close to the core.” Mack said out loud. “How are we going to get up there?” Luna asks in response before seeing one the train zipping on by above them making sound scrapping metal for a few seconds.

“Impossible, I mean impossible to jump on that train at that height and speed; from where we’ll standing.” The Doctor said out loud about thinking the impossible. Before hearing children laughing behind them.

The three of them seeing three children running around and playing until one of them see them and comes towards them. Then in a white flash, the child turned into a young adult human, wearing a purple coat with a light blue shirt, dark blue pants with a brown belt and black three-inch heel boots.

Luna knows who’s this person is. “Destiny, what are you doing here?” She asks her while the Doctor realizes it just as soon Luna does. “Luna, things are not looking good outside.” She answers her question. “How are you doing this?” Luna asks her again. “Let just say, you taught me the technique with the help of my father.” She answers her again, Destiny cuts her off before she could ask another question. “Luna, my dad is getting worst and you need to hurry; or both of you will be a trap here.” She tells them, shocking them in the progress.

“What do you mean?” The Doctor asks her. “Listen, I don’t have long, and time is running out for everyone here.” She answers his question the best she can see the train line above them seeing another train going by.

“It looks like a train comes by every 30 seconds.” Destiny said out loud. “Can you help us?” Luna asks her. “Yes, I will.” She answers her question. They quickly made their way when into a nearby building with a bridge overlooking the line.

Moments later the group made their way to the bridge over the bridge seeing another train going passing through. “Shit, we missed it.” Mack said out loud. “Relax, there’s another one coming.” Destiny tells him to see another one coming at the end of the track.

Luna and the Doctor sees glass on the windows of the bridge. “How are we going to get on the train?” Luna asks her, as she pulls something like a weapon with a speaker on the end and aimed it, at one of the windows on the other side from where the train.

She pulled the trigger and the weapon charge up and fire a sound wave shattering the window and the ones next to it. “Destiny, what are you doing?” The Doctor asks her. “How you suspect to get on the train.” She answers her question putting away her weapon. “You mean to jump on it?” He asks her dumbfounded look on his face as she gets into position. Mack and Luna do the same. The Doctor still thinking this is crazy. “Do you trust me?” Destiny asks him to make him get into position next to Luna.

“On my mark.” Destiny said before beginning to count down. “Three, Two, One, Mark.” The flour of the run through the opening in the windows quickly seeing the train going under them. Then landing on their feet seeing building going way in a flash feeling the wind going through them just as fast.

Before seeing something else landed on the train with them, making them turn and see what jump on with them and come to find out its that creature on their heels again. Destiny gets her weapon again and aimed it at the creature and fire it at the creature. Sending it off the train, she when to check and sees nothing. Before the creature comes up shocking her making her jump back losing her weapon.

Making get back on the top of the train pulling out its gun and aimed it. Destiny remembers her training from her master when she was younger. Moving quickly she kicks it out of his hand and making a few punches into its weak points around its neck, face, and chest. Making it freeze in place for a few seconds before sliding her leg around below around its feet making it fall to the ground sending it flying through the train landing to the ground below.

The three of them seeing what just happen in front of their eyes and still couldn’t believe it. Making them turn seeing the building around them are gone showing a bright light in front of them. The light is bright as the sun, making them place their hand over their eyes try to make it out what they are trying to see.

When they passed through seeing a building, looking more like a tower reaching nearly ten thousand feet high from where their standing as the train comes into the station.

“I don’t know what about to happen, I never came through this way before.” Mack said out loud when the train comes to a stop. Beginning to feel the top of the train where there are standing open up making to try and stay on their feet as it shifts and opens up revealing themselves be containers throughout the train and cranes quickly came over the train to unload it within a few minutes.

The group jumps off the train landing on their feet, but Mack landed on his feet making him fall on his burnt-up arm. “AHHH, GOD DAMN IT!” He shouted at the top of his lungs in pain.

The Doctor helps him get back on his feet seeing that his arm is in flame from the fall. “You’re going to be alright?” Destiny asks him. “I’ll be alright just give me a minute.” He answers her question still feeling the pain going through his arm trying his best to get back on his feet with the Doctor's help.

The place was never like anything they never have seen before. Cranes moving only minutes apart from each other uploading the trains that came in before sent from where they came on loading up more of those containers filled with only god knows what, repeating the cycle again and again.

The group sees another train just pulling into the line next to them coming to a stop. The tops open and cranes reach over them lifting more of those containers one by one. When an alarm goes off, with red lights going off. The group sees what jump off the just arrived train, seeing that creature again handing on its feet.

“Impossible.” The Doctor said out loud seeing the creature again after that they just lost it. A swat unit came through stopping next to them and men wearing armor looking more like an army than anything else. They get into position making a roadblock holding shields in front of the creature while others came behind and the sides of the creature and men on top the armored car holding guns from AR-15 to 12-gauge shotguns. Before hearing a voice coming from everywhere and nowhere.

“You think, you just came in here and try to take over.” The voice called out to the creature. “No, I suspect you to die.” The creature relayed. “So be it.” The voice called out loud before hearing one of the armor men called out to the others.

“OPEN FIRE!”

The men open fire on the creature in a hell of gunfire. The group taking over trying to getaway. They made their way behind the other side of the dockyard, still hearing all that gunfire going on for what felt like forever. Until they ran out of ammo.

The room feels with smoke for a few minutes until the smoke cleared. The creature was still standing, and it didn’t even have a scratch on it popping its neck before replaying. “Well then, my turn.” The creature relayed charging its glowing hand before hitting the ground making a shock wave of red and black energy, heading in all directions making the lights go and sending the army to fall backward. Making the cranes comes to a complete stop.

Before charging up something before lunching it from its mouth aim at the train on its left side, hitting it sending it into a series of fireballs, killing the armed swat. Before firing another train on the other side, sending it into a fireball as well.

The ones in front of the creature, still holding strong after being knockdown on their asses. Starting to get scared out of their mind seeing what kind of powers this thing as. The group quickly made their way through the chaos. The only lights there are from the fires and the red light still going. Destiny remembers the stories before she was even born and now seeing it, first-hand. She understands what will happen to her and this creature she just fought.

In the flash, she wakes up in the waking world seeing her mother trying to get her attention. Seeing the lightning bolt gets stronger and brighter before attaching to her as well. Sending back into the mind of her fathers.

Waking up with the group seeing where the body starting to glow in a white hue. Making the creature take notice killing the as swat member. Luna sees Destiny glowing Mack and the Doctor sees her glowing as well. “What’s going on?” Mack said out loud.

Before hearing lighting strikes around hitting the building. Then in a flash the unknow figure appeared in front of them, coming closer and closer towards Destiny feeling the mark on the side of her neck begins to hurt. The figure just keels next to her and reaches out its hand touching her making the glowing even brighter.

Making the creature starts to run towards them. Destiny opens her eyes which is glowing pure white and called out to the creature. “The Darkness Has Gone Too Long In This Mind, Now Be Gone!” Destiny shots at the creature holding her hand out picking up the creature before sending across the room. Pissing off the creature going for another attack at her making his arms glow in hate, while Mack gets in the way of the attack hitting him in the gut-punching straight through him sending blood everywhere behind him. “Fool.” The creature said out pulling its arm out the victim letting the body hit the floor.

“NNNNOOOOO!” Luna shouts at the top of her lungs. Destiny using her powers to pick up the creature and sees a clear ball only a few feet away from her and use her power to grab it.

“You can’t get rid of me, you just can’t.” The creature said out loud. Before Destiny throws the ball below it, activating it making the body of the creature being turn into red and black smoke, and being suck into the ball, while the creature said it last words. “You can get rid of me, I’m the darkness. I keep even the devil up at night. I will return.” It said as the last of him turns into smoke and suck into the ball below him. Showing the smoke inside.

Then in a flash Destiny was gone leaving Luna and the Doctor alone with a dying Mack. They both ran towards him see that he is breathing the last of his breaths has well. With the last of his strength tilted his head up to tells them one thing. “Reach the top of the tower.” He tells them before letting go letting his head falls back to the ground for the last time.

Then they notice that their someone missing. “Where’s Destiny?” The Doctor asks out loud looking around for her. “She must when back to the real world, without a choice.” Luna answers his question still trying to morn their friend that stuck with them for this long.

Both are along in the mind of a mad man without anyone leading them the rest of the way. They have no choice to go on the rest of this journey on their own.

“Luna, I know you’re trying to morn. But the only thing we can do is to reach the top of this tower, find James, and bring him to the outskirts where that horse is waiting for us.” The Doctor tells her, making her get back on her feet; seeing the speaker steam come online, spraying trying to put out the fires around them getting wet the process.

Both leave the area trying to find a lift somewhere. Seeing the now smoke glass ball holding the creature that has to follow them so far just laying the ground wetting water on before turning into steam the moment the water hits it.

Once they left the area something or someone picks it up, unknown to what will come to it.

They find a cargo lift and gets into it and active it goes up the higher floors above them, until that they are only like 50 floors up it stopped at a floor with a Hugh double-door with a plaque on it and it said, Memory Cores.

They remember their trip to that memory that Mack made a copy was from. They push open the doors seeing looks like hundreds of those memories resting on podiums with a painting behind each and every one of them. The paintings didn’t look like ordinary paintings, they are more like 3D- images of what that holds within it.

The Doctor remembers art style like this back in his homeworld of Gallifrey. Then seeing the memory with the painting behind it seeing everything that had experience seeing the memory for themselves.

Luna sees another memory with painting what looks like a major battle taking place. The memory is in a mix color of red and purple, with Twilight and her friends fighting in the battle with a grand army behind them fighting a fierce adversary looking they are outnumbered, seeing the painting changing to something that made the tables turn in her favor, show those elements and ones that have let to show themselves fighting alongside them. The only person that they don’t see is James himself in the memory. Not knowing what will happen if she touches it. She reaches her hand but remembering the trip she had with the other memory with the doctor and pulls her hand back.

The Doctor sees another memory but this one of joy glowing in bright yellow color. He sees the painting show, Pinky and James in a hospital room holding a baby, remembering that must be Destiny in her father’s arms.

They keep going seeing more memories and their paintings above them, until one stuck out the most seeing a trophy with a memory sitting on top of it. The memory showing a blind of all the colors they had seen so far. The painting shows me and woman standing on stage with lights flashing around them from cameras and other sources next to the stage is a blue car looking it been through a tough fight and a black and white car next to it looking an older model then the blue car standing next to it.

“This must be a very important memory.” The Doctor said out loud seeing some writing on the trophy that difficult to make out. But it said, WINNER OF THE FIRST EVER CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE M R SERIES. The space that is missing for some reason that is the most difficult to read, because of the missing letters. Seeing the letters were once there have been taking off for some reason.

They when past it sees another memory with a shade of both purple and yellow, in a stand of sitting on a platform this memory sits on the car they seen just a few seconds ago, the painting shows the vehicle going as fast it can go seeing a portal opening up in front of it.

They kelp going through the place seeing things that they would have never seen in their lifetimes. They find an elevator that will take them through the rest of the way up.

Seeing the numbers slowly climb up, both are them waiting until it reaches the top of the tower, thinking about what could be up there.

Meanwhile

Destiny just wakes up gasping for breath. Seeing everyone scared seeing what just happened moments ago, wondering what going on with her mother grabbing her left hand. “What did you see?” Pinky asks her daughter. “Why, what happens?” She asks her mother in reposes still baffled, before remembering what happens inside her father’s mind.

Seeing the lightning bolt is no longer attached to her hand, but still attached to her father’s forehead. After a quick explanation to everypony in that room.

Celestia thinking about what kind of creature can do that kind of stuff from being in a mind of a man that trying to help them through these dark times. She has a good idea of what it looks like from Destiny's description and what she saw inside there, knowing that her sister is going through the same.

Things were starting to calm themselves down with cure going around the sick and those that are injured from yesterday are recovering. The guards outside the building trying to help the staff with the patients. A group of guards brings more crates from the ship and from the train station coming back from getting more supplies from the train that just moments ago. Well, others when to the ruins of once-great of Canterlot, trying to find survivors that didn’t make it out in time.

Back in the mind of a mad man.

The elevator starts to slow down knowing that just reaches the top of the tower. Not knowing what waiting for them. When it stops and the doors open, they see another one of those doors with the same symbol that they had seen many times before. But the door looks like it was made from wood that just looks and off looking more like metal or plastic. Before the door opens all on its own, making both of them jump back a little; seeing only a black void in front of them.

“Doctor, I’ve seen some things before, but this scares me, not knowing what is in there.” Luna tells him grabbing his hand. “I feel the same thing, but we didn’t come this far to stop now.” He said in reposes, before heading into the black void in front of them.

The door quickly closes behind them, leaving both of them in the dark before hearing a voice. “Are you with him?” The unknown voice asks them to scare them not knowing what will happen to them next.

“You mean the creature downstairs, we’re not with whatever it was.” The doctor answers the question from their unknown host. Before seeing a match being lit in front of them seeing a cigar being lit. Seeing the unknown person in person shocking both of them. “James, is that really you?” Luna ask him to see their friend looking younger than the last time that they’ve seen them.

“No, I’m not him. I’m really his subconscious. Trying my best to keep things running, while the one you’re looking for is somewhere else that I can’t even go.” The subconscious tells them as the light the room comes on.

“Then where is he?” Luna asks him, as the subconscious removes his cigar and blows out the smoke. “I’ll take you to him.” The subconscious tells them both heading to a part of the room leading them to where their friend truly is.

He leads them to a set of double doors. “Before I let you see him, just don’t get scared when you see him.” He tells them before opening the door.

Once the doors are open, they see something that either of them had seen before. A sphere 30 ft. in diameter takes nearly the whole room the process. In glowing bright blue color with some shades of purple taking up nearly half of the sphere.

“How is this even possible?” The Doctor asks him. “A mind always has fascinated people of the waking world.” The Subconscious answers him but also raises more questions from that statement.

“What you mean, James made this thing?” Luna asks him. “Yes, he did; and he is in there. He only goes in there when need to go in there, but this time he just fell into it, that way I’m here and the rise of the creature you saw earlier today.” The Subconscious answers her question the best he could.

“What was that creature we saw earlier and way he looks that person we saw in that one memory we saw?” The Doctor asks him. “It showed up here 20 years ago, after the event that let to happen. Anyway, it started up slow at first, until its first attack and each time it has become stronger and getting closer to the tower. This time we were lucky, next time we may not be as lucky. Also, way it looks like James's creation and most morrow enemy, I don’t know that answer to that.” He answers his question the best he can.

“Well, not the answer I was looking for, but an answer none the least.” The Doctor response from the remark. “So, how do we get in?” The Doctor asks him. “You jump in.” He response making both of them look up seeing a metal plank above the sphere.

“How do we get up there?” Luna ask him, before seeing a platform come down on the left side of the room, answering her question before the Subconscious could answer.

They quickly make their way towards the platform. Before hearing something from the subconscious. “Listen, I don’t know what you find in there, but I hope that you find him and bring him back to the waking world.” He tells them before the platform is taking to the higher floors.

Once they reach the metal plank, the platform stops in front seeing the sphere below. Seeing the Subconscious standing there taking another drag from the cigar. Both seeing what lies ahead of them, they both were thinking the same thing and that is. “What is the other side?”

Before jumping in into the sphere below.

Here's the 41^th chapter in the story so far.

So about the long wait between uploads. These things take time to get where they need to go.

The next chapter will be interesting.

This is James Cribb.
Signing out.